Cushing's Key Marco Atlatls

Two forms of prehistoric atlatl or spear thrower were recovered from a Florida swamp in 1895 by Frank Hamilton Cushing. Modern research on spear throwers requires a more useful detailed description of these artifacts, and leads to attempts to replicate and test them. In this case, replicative experiments provide some subjective evaluations of the atlatls, and several possible interpretive directions. As in many replicative experiments, physical tests of some aspects of the atlatls, such as possible length, are relatively easy, but do not fully solve the problem of choosing among different plausible reconstructions of the original specimens

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• Decolonizing the Spear-Thrower

  Open Access•Adam N Rorabaugh, James Brown et al.•Advances in Archaeological Practice•2026

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• Levers, Not Springs

  Open Access•John C Whittaker•Multidisciplinary Approaches to…•2016

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• Atlatl Dart Velocity

  John C Whittaker, Devin B Pettigrew et al.•PaleoAmerica•2017

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• Ozark atlatls and darts

  Devin B Pettigrew•Plains Anthropologist•2018

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• The Aztec Atlatl in the British Museum

  Open Access•John C Whittaker•Ancient Mesoamerica•2015

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• Cushing's Key Marco Atlatls

  John C Whittaker, John Whittaker•Ethnoarchaeology•2011

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• The Bannerstone

  Larry Kinsella•Ethnoarchaeology•2013

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• Primitive Weapons and Modern Sport

  John C Whittaker, Kathryn A Kamp•Plains Anthropologist•2006

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• The Atlatl

  William B Butler•Plains Anthropologist•1975

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• The Material Culture of Key Marco Florida

  Arthur H Derosier, Marion Spjut Gilliland•The American Indian Quarterly•1977

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• Spearthrower performance

  Open Access•W Karl Hutchings, Lorenz W Brüchert•Antiquity•1997

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• Cushing's Key Marco Atlatls

  John C Whittaker, John Whittaker•Ethnoarchaeology•2011

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• Interpretive Archaeology and Its Role

  Open Access•I Hodder•American Antiquity•1991

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• The Key Marco, Florida Collection

  Open Access•Barbara A Purdy•American Antiquity•1974

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• Historic Use of the Spear-Thrower in Southeastern North America

  Open Access•John R Swanton•American Antiquity•1938

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• The Arrow

  Open Access•Frank Hamilton Cushing•American Anthropologist•1895

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